Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.www.phoronix.com
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Geodad
in reply to Karna • • •From what I understand, xorg has fundamental security flaws. How will they remedy this?
Why stick with a dead standard when the rest of the FOSS world has moved on?
What happens when the Linux kernel drops support for xorg? Do they intend to fork an older version of the kernel in order to keep support?
Karna
in reply to Geodad • • •OsrsNeedsF2P
in reply to Geodad • • •They won't. Don't download random shit and if you're worried, run it in Flatpak
Not really possible, since X11 is only built on top of the kernel's graphical interface (same as Wayland). Even if that wasn't the case, the kernel doesn't delete any code that anybody uses (that's why 30 year old programs still run)
maxwells_daemon
in reply to Karna • • •theshatterstone54
in reply to maxwells_daemon • • •maxwells_daemon
in reply to theshatterstone54 • • •Yeah, I love to see people being called "racist" over not liking corporate facades, or "neo nazi" over referencing a clown. Always very productive.
There's a simple solution to this: if Red Hat doesn't like the guy or his code, don't fucking use it. They're the ones who banned him from Xorg and reverted his changes.
Actually, why do I expect a corpo to be morally or ideologically consistent? Silly me...
Leaflet
in reply to Karna • • •F43 Change Proposal: X11Libre (system-wide)
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Axum
in reply to Karna • • •Just let xserver die
rhabarba
in reply to Axum • • •OsrsNeedsF2P
in reply to Karna • • •The first comment on the request